While You Were At Preschool

After her first week of preschool, it suddenly occurred to Annabel that the world didn’t stop turning just because she was in school. The first time she asked me, “What did you do when I was at school?” I didn’t want to make her feel bad (as if “well, honey, I went to the gym, and then I took a shower” is something to be jealous of), so I said, “Well, James and I just sat on the couch and missed you.”

Annie laughed, but then she said, “No Mommy, don’t miss me, I’m having fun with my friends! You need to have fun with Jamesie!” The next time she asked me what James and I had done while she was at school, I was ready.

“Oh, James jumped on your trampoline.”

“WHAT? No he didn’t! He’s just a baby!”

But I had proof.

I wasn’t certain how Annie would react, but she cracked up. After her next day of school, the first thing she asked me when she got in the car was what James did while she was at preschool. I was prepared:

She absolutely howled with laughter over that one. “JAMESIE! YOU LOOK LIKE A PRINCESS!”

Of course, now I’ve set myself up to do this every time she’s at school.

Good thing James has fun with it, too.

Hopefully Annie will still think it’s funny when James is actually getting into her stuff while she’s at school!

You guys have some of the cutest kids ever. I can just hear Annie laughing over finding out the stuff James did while she was away. Keep those pics coming…they soothe my almost-want-a-tiny-baby thoughts…without me actually having to have any

YOU are so FUN! This is such cute idea. Seriously, is there a board book called, “While you were at preschool?” with cute little baby brother pictures on the pages? Because there should be. It could be a series. The next book could be, “While you were in First Grade” and then the last book could be, “When you finally went off to college…” and then the photos could be snippets of the parents, like hands clinking glasses together, or feet entwined at the bottom of the bed … things like that. I’m telling you, it could be cute. Okay, so if you don’t want to do that, at least take all of these “while you were at preschool” pictures that you do with “Jamesie” and make a Shutterfly book for Annabel to read. It can be a Christmas present.

Monica S. says:

OMG! Too funny! Love the photos! We do the same thing back and forth between my hubby and me…we take photos of what we are doing with one daughter while the other daughter is with the other spouse. Fun times! Thanks for sharing and the smiles

Rah says:

Jenn says:

OMG!!! I LOOOVVVEEEE THIS!!!! IT’S SO CREATIVE!!!! Have you ever thought of writing a children’s book??? I’m so serious!!! THIS WOULD BE A GREAT PREMISE!!!! (and once you make it BIG – you can dedicate a book to me for coming up with the idea!!! Ha ha I kid!!).

Jenn says:

AAAhhh MAN!!! I just read some of the other comments….looks like I wasn’t the first one to think you should write a book!!! DANG!!! THERE GOES MY SHOUT OUT!!!! Ha ha – Seriously though…YOU SHOULD WRITE OUT!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!!

Margaret says:

I have T2 diabetes and I am VERY overweight. I probably weigh two of you. However, I have been losing weight and eating well (no carbs for me). I’ve been losing inches, too. I’d lost about 50lbs and I was so thrilled. Two days later, I stepped on the scale and it went up by 10lbs. Now you KNOW there is no way that is fat, or frankly even muscle gain. But still seeing the number fluctuate like that made my eyes bug out. That’s 1/5th of my progress! Ugh, so annoying. But I remain undeterred.

AmyG says:

Paula says:

James has the cutest chub on his legs. I loved it when my boys were in onesies and their chub was vulnerable to my raspberries.

I love this idea. My youngest cried when he started Kindy and when I asked why he said “You’ll be so lonely without me.” I swallowed the cry ball in my throat and reminded him that I had his Sass (our Sheltie) to keep me company and we’d both walk up and pick him up. He made it through the day with no more tears. Me? I bawled all the way home.

rc says:

These are AMAZING – I would totally buy the book. I especially love it because so many people say the second/third child is deprived, doesn’t get photographed as much, etc. Not the case with your little guy! Love these pics.